Crime Fiction Links of the Week for January 15, 2022

 

It's time again for Crime Fiction Links of the Week, our weekly round-up of interesting links about crime fiction from around the web, this week with Nightmare Alley, Dexter: New Blood, the latest version of Scream, tributes to Sidney Poitier and Terry Teachout and much more.

Crime fiction in general:

• Laura Wilson offers a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
  
• Crime Reads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week. 
• Molly Odintz shares historical mysteries coming out in 2022. 
• Maggie Bunting shares her favourite crime novels and mysteries of 2021. 
• Nadine Matheson explains why she has always been drawn to crime fiction.
  
• Paul French shares crime fiction set in Antarctica. 
• Claire Holroyde shares her favourite climate disaster thrillers.
  
• Alafair Burke talks about female friendships in crime fiction. 
• Charles Cumming wonders why spies in their twenties are so rare in spy fiction. 
• Victoria Houston explains how advances in DNA analysis have generated new plots for crime novels.
  
• T. Jefferson Parker explains why he wrote a crime novel set in the 1960s. 
• Olivia Rutigliano lists ten classic mysteries and crime stories that entered the public domain in 2022.
• Molly Templeton explains that reading goals might be a good thing. 
• B.V. Lawson shares her appreciation for the Lew Archer series by Ross Macdonald.
  
• Curtis Evans corrects some misconceptions about Cornell Woolrich.
  
• Deuce Richardson remembers pulp cover artist P.J. Monahan, who illustrated many Edgar Rice Burroughs stories and was the first person to draw Zorro. 
• Steve Powell remembers Andrew Vachss. 
• Author, critic and musician Terry Teachout has died aged 65. 
• Sarah Weinman remembers Terry Teachout.
  
• Crime fiction writer and journalist J.J. Lamb has died aged 90. 

 

Film and TV: 

• Lucy Mangan calls Rules of the Game a rich and meaty murder mystery. 
• Luke Buckmaster calls Gold a tough and tense outback thriller.
  
• Cath Clarke calls The Devil to Pay a tepid hillbilly thriller. 
• Jack Seale calls The Journalist an oddly familiar drama about political corruption, even if it's set in Japan.
• Kyle Fowle calls Ray Donovan: The Movie as sullen and empty as the TV series that preceded it.
• Leslie Felperin calls Killing Field a painfully unoriginal thriller that appears to be yet another attempt by Bruce Willis to commit career suicide.
• Olivia Rutigliano calls The Tragedy of Macbeth a breathtaking exercise in transformation.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel shares their thoughts on the first episode of series 11 of Death in Paradise.
• Martin Edwards shares his thoughts on the Australian crime drama The Dry.
  
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the Finnish crime drama Bordertown: The Mural Murders.
• Paul Hirons shares his thoughts on the latest episode of The Tourist.
• Leila Latif shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Yellowjackets. 
• Keith Roysdon revisits the 1972 supernatural noir TV movie The Night Stalker.
  
• Radha Vatsal revisits the 2002 British historical crime drama Foyle's War. 
• Dwyer Murphy shares five Michael Douglas thrillers to watch.
  
• Henry K. Miller reports about problems on the set of the 1926 suspense movie The Lodger, Alfred Hitchcock's first suspense movie, and how star June Tripp almost died on set.
  
• Tim Lewis interviews Kelly Macdonald, star of Line of Duty and Operation Mincemeat.
• Rich Pelley interviews action star Dolph Lundgren.
• Josh Rottenberg interviews former Batman Ben Affleck.
  
• Molly Templeton reports that Ben Affleck will no longer appear as Batman after the upcoming The Flash movie. 
• Catherine Shoard reports that Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armourer on the set of Rust when the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins occurred, is now sueing the company that supplied the weapons and ammunition for the film.
  
• Andrew Pulver reports that actress Hayley Mills has been given a new Oscar to replace the one she won at the age of fourteen in 1960 and which was stolen in the 1980s.
  
• Rosy Cordero reports that there will be a crossover between NCIS and NCIS Hawai'i. 
• Joe Otterson reports that the popular crime series Justified will return, once again starring Timothy Olyphant.
  
• Actor Dwayne Hickman, who is best remembered for The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, but who also appeared in Cat Ballou, Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, has died aged 87.

 

Tributes to Sidney Poitier:

• Pioneering black actor Sidney Poitier, star of In the Heat of the Night, The Defiant Ones, Blackboard Jungle and many others, has died aged 94.
• Peter Bradshaw remembers Sidney Poitier.
• Todd Boyd remembers Sidney Poitier. 
• Don Warrington remembers Sidney Poitier.
  
• Greg Whitmore shares photos from Sidney Poitier's lengthy career.
  

 

Comments on Nightmare Alley:

• Ryan Gilbey interviews David Strathairn, one of the stars of Nightmare Alley.
• Leonard Maltin interviews Guillermo del Toro, director of Nightmare Alley, Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim, The Shape of Water, Hellboy and many others.   

 

Comments on Dexter: New Blood:

• Joshua Alston shares his thoughts on the season finale of Dexter: New Blood.
• Paul Levinson shares his thoughts on the season finale of Dexter: New Blood.
  

 

Comments on the latest version of Scream:

• Peter Bradshaw calls the latest version of Scream an irony laden sequel that's creaking with age. 
• Germain Lussier declares that the latest version of Scream manages to surprise and upends expectations.
  
• Katie Rife declares that the latest version of Scream proves that smartphones and smart homes did not kill off the slasher film.
• Germain Lussier interviews the directors and producer of the latest iteration of Scream.

 

Awards:

• The winners of the 2022 MWA Grand Master, Raven Award and Ellery Queen Award have been announced.
  
• The winners of the 2022 Golden Globes have been announced with a little love for crime film and TV.  
• The finalists for the 2022 SAG Awards have been announced with a little love for genre film and TV.  
• The finalists for the 2022 Writers Guild Television Awards have been announced with some love for genre shows. 
  

 

Writing, publishing and promotion:

• Tim Waggoner shares reasons to quit and not quit writing. 
• Paul Cocozza shares writing advice from Booker Prize winner George Saunders. 
• Joy Kluver talks about themes. 
• Darcey Bell talks about having one of her novels adapted into a film.
  
• Jacqui Lipton talks about fair use. 
• Kristine Kathryn Rusch talks about digital growth and new trends in indie publishing.
  
• Mike Glyer reports that Amazon continues its banning spree and has banned Nigerian writer and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki only a day before they were due to pay him royalties.
• Mike Glyer reports that Amazon has restored Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki's account and books, but that he still has issues getting paid.
  
• Alison Flood reports that UK book sales have risen by twenty percent in 2021 and that mystery writer Richard Osman is the most popular author of the year.
  
• Alison Flood reports that indie bookstores are booming in the UK in spite of various difficulties.
• Fox 9 reports that Dreamhaven Books in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been vandalised and robbed for the fourth time since May 2020.
  

 

Interviews: 

• Marshal Zeringue interviews Alafair Burke.
  
• Wrong Place, Write Crime interviews Sebastian Fitzek.
• E.B. Davis interviews Amy Pershing. 
• John A. Hoda interviews Marcy McCreary.
• Murder Books interviews Richard McGonegal.
  
• Punk Noir Magazine interviews James Jenkins.
• Cheryl Eddy interviews David Bushman and Mark T. Givens.
  

Reviews:

• Lesa Holstine reviews Find Me by Alafair Burke.
• John Valeri reviews Find Me by Alafair Burke.
• Crime by the Book reviews Unhinged by Thomas Enger and Jørn Lier Horst.
• Garrick Webster reviews The Engine House by Rhys Dylan.
  
• Blue Book Balloon reviews Opal Country by Chris Hammer.
• Paul Burke reviews Opal Country by Chris Hammer. 
• Sandra Mangan reviews Two Storm Wood by Philip Gray.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Dark Pines by Will Dean. 
• Mike Parker reviews Silver Pebbles by Hansjörg Schneide, translated by Mike Mitchell.
  
• The Book Decoder reviews The House Fire by Rosie Walker.
  
• Adam Colclough reviews City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman. 
• Runalong the Shelves reviews The Comfort of Monsters by Willa C. Richards.
  
• Ron Fortier reviews Cutthroat Dogs by Loren D. Estleman.
  
• Joseph P. Hoyos reviews A Thousand Steps by T. Jefferson Parker. 
• Publishers Weekly reviews A Narrow Door by Joanne Harris.
  
• Jenny Maloney reviews The Perfect Escape by Leah Konen. 
• Beth Kanell reviews The Final Case by David Guterson. 
• The Book Decoder reviews Treachery Times Two by Robert McCaw.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews Dangerous Women by Hope Adams.
  
• BOLO Books reviews Burying the Newspaper Man by Curtis Ippolito. 
• Paperback Warrior reviews Red and Buried by James Mullaney. 
• Kirkus reviews The Torqued Man by Peter Mann.
  
• Maureen Corrigan reviews The Latinist by Mark Prins.
  
• The Quick and the Read reviews The Dead of Winter by Nicola Upson.
• Crossexamining Crime reviews The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett. 
• Mary Picken reviews The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett.
  
• Lesa Holstine reviews A Three Book Problem by Vicki Delany. 
• Doreen Sheridan reviews Steeped in Murder by Kirsten Weiss and tries a recipe from the book.
  
• Sandie Herron reviews Drowned Under by Wendall Thomas.
• Charlene Giannetti reviews Seasonal Work by Laura Lippman.
  

 

Classics reviews:

• Happiness is a Book revisits the 1965 mystery The Ginger Cat Mystery a.k.a. Murder at Marston Manor by Robin Forsythe.
  
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1941 mystery Odor of Violets by Baynard Kendrick.
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1941 mystery Seven Clues in Search of a Crime by Bruce Graeme. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1947 mystery Cold Bed in Clay by Ruth Sawtell Wallis. 
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1954 juvenile delinquent novel Wild Oats by Harry Whittington
  
• In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel revisits the 1956 Inspector Burmann mystery Drink Alone and Die by Belton Cobb.
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1957 mystery The Man with the Cane by Jean Potts. 
• Martin Edwards revisits the 1957 mystery The Man with the Cane by Jean Potts.
  
• Steven Nester revisits the 1965 Virgil Tibbs crime novel In the Heat of the Night by John Ball. 
• Crossexamining Crime revisits the 1965 mystery The Only Good Secretary by Jean Potts. 
  
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1966 gothic novel Heritage of Fear by Evelyn Bond a.k.a. Morris Hershman.
• Beth Kanell revisits the 1970 Dave Bradstetter mystery Fadeout by Joseph Hansen. 
• Michael Nava revisits the 1970 Dave Brandstetter mystery Fadeout by Joseph Hansen.
  
• Joe Kenney revisits The Temple at Ilumquh, a 1970 novel in The Adjusters spy fiction series by Jack Laflin.
• Paperback Warrior revisits the 1974 martial arts novel Dragon's Fists by Jim Dennis a.k.a. Dennis O'Neill and James Berry.
  

 

Crowdfunding:

• Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith are looking for funding for Crimes Collide, a five volume collection of 500 of their crime and mystery short stories.
• Nigerian author and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki needs some help after Amazon banned him, taking more than 2000 US-dollars in royalties with them.
  

 

Con reports:

• James Barron reports about the exhibition “Sherlock Holmes in 221 Objects” at the Grolier Club in New York City.
• Kass Jimenez-Sanchez reports that a statue of Agatha Christie will be set up in her former hometown of Wallingford, UK. 

 

Research:

• Philip Jett talks about Glennon Engleman, a dentist in St. Louis, Missouri, who moonlighted as an assassin for hire. 
• Laura Joh Rowland remembers the Torso Murderer, a serial killer operating in Victorian London around the same time as Jack the Ripper.
• Harley Rustad traces the mysterious disappearances of tourists in the Parvati Valley in the Himalayas.
• Maggie Krell explains how she took down an online sex trafficking network.
• Peter Mann reports about youth gangs living in the woods around Berlin in the 1920s and early 1930s.
  

Free online fiction:

• "Murder and Money" by Jacqueline Seewald in Mysteryrat's Maze Podcast. 
• "Windfall" by Russell Thayer in Guilty.
  
• "The Green Tower" by Steve Bucellato in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Predator in Camouflage" by Barb Lundy in Mystery Tribune. 
• "The Devil and the Deep Blue Chiemsee" by Mary Jo Rabe in Mystery Tribune.
  
• "Hobo Heart" by Stu Watson in Mystery Tribune.
• "Epitaph for a Dreamer" by Lamont Turner in Mystery Tribune.
• "Two Rounds" by Linda Kiess in Mystery Tribune. 
• "Blame Rudolf" by Bernard Onken in Mystery Tribune.
• "Unresolved Story on the Butt End of Avenue B" by Saira Viola in The Five-Two.